Singapore Art Museum (SAM) has announced the launch of its inaugural residencies programme which will begin in July 2021 and ‘aims to support innovative practices, encourage collaborations, and widen public understanding of art’.
SAM’s programme will feature four residencies, and the open call asks for applications from artists, curators, art organisations and artist-run spaces, as well as community and education-focused art practitioners. While ‘EX-SITU: Art Spaces Residency’ (for art organisations based in Asia) is by invitation only, SAM will be accepting applications for three other residencies from 9 December 2020 to 28 February 2021.
Designed as an ‘incubator for new approaches to artistic and curatorial practices through supporting dialogue within and beyond the field of contemporary art’, the SAM residencies will offer ‘a platform for artistic experimentation and encourages the exchange of ideas and opportunities for future collaboration, as well as network building. The Residents will also be encouraged to interact with or involve local communities and the public in different ways, through presentations and programmes such as open studio visits, talks, workshops and other activities.’
About SAM Residencies
The studio-based residencies, each taking place between one and six months, are based on topics and themes that reflect contemporary concerns, with the 2021 cycle focusing on artistic practitioners whose processes ‘engage with notions of ‘intimacy’ and ‘infrastructures’, and the impact on technology on contemporary life’.
The residencies open to applicants are:
• Artist Residency – open to artists and collectives who are looking to develop artistic practices and emergent modes of artmaking.
• Community & Education Residency – open to practitioners who explore the relationship between art practice and forms of education or whose core practice engages with local communities or the public in various ways.
• Curatorial & Research Residency – open to curators and researchers who are working on new modes of curatorial thinking and research process.
The deadline for the open call is 28 February 2021.
